Deployment

An (almost) Comprehensive List of Web Components

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EDT

In talking with Andy Schwartz before our recent talk together at Oracle Open World, Andy mentioned that he'd like to see some new components make it in to JSF 2.1. I'd like to see that too - but what new components? To aid the discussion, I thought it might be handy to make up a list of components that I think would be handy for JSF - but please, don't take this as an endorsement of any particular component for inclusion into the spec. At best, I can see us adding only a handful, perhaps 3 or so. Still, once started, this kind of project becomes it's own end - so I decided it might be good to publish such a list. Many of these components already exist in some form or another for JSF, or as a JavaScript Widget that could be wrapped in a JSF component - so most of them are available today.

How to Attend Adobe MAX Conference for Cheap

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:00:00 EDT

Three years ago, I was calculating the cost of attending JavaOne conference. Thanks to the crisis, the conferences got cheaper, but arestill not affordable for many software developers. I’d like to offer you a legal way to get more than 80% off the registration price at Adobe MAX that will take place next week in Los Angeles. But you have to move fast! It’s easy: 1. Today: enroll into a cheapest class in your local community college to get a student ID. 2. Tomorrow: register for Adobe Max for $199 at the following Web page: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/edu/max2009/. 3. Sunday: arrive to LA.

Cloud Computing Ain’t Electricity – It’s a Supermarket

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:15:00 EDT

Thanks to Nicholas Carr everyone loves to talk about Cloud Computing as electricity and how we are transitioning from own power-stations to central grid. After a lot of discussions about “the cloud”, it occurred to me recently that there is a far better model to make cloud idea easy to understand – and it is supermarket. Electricity is kind of a wrong model. Not because so many folks are now trying to get the pendulum swing back and get to solar panels and other micro-generators, but also because software and IT services are much less uniform than electrical current. There’s no single “IT utility current” you can get from your network outlet to solve all IT needs.

Running Chrome Inside of Internet Explorer

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:00:00 EDT

Internet Explorer, particularly versions 6 and before, are the bane of any web developer's existence. The Internet Explorer versions Microsoft produced during the competion-free era between when Netscape died and Firefox came on the scene are masterpieces of monopolistic neglect. IE 5 and IE6 are slow, proprietary and just plain awful to work with. Worst of all, Microsoft guaranteed themselves longtime domination of the corporate browser market through this cynical behavior because all the web apps built for IE 5 and 6 are so full of hacks that they won't run on "modern" browsers!

Live Framework Developers Get Boned

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:00:00 EDT

When I first read this, I was all "OMFGWTFNoMesh!?!" and exploded in front of my computer. After cleaning the bits of my exploded brain off the keyboard and looking at it again, some of it made sense. They are taking the Live Framework stuff down and theoretically coming up with a better, more in-depth, more unified API for Live. This step is long overdue because for a very, very long time developers have been confused because there is "old live framework" and then "live mesh/live framework" and then there's Azure and then there's a bunch of crap that's been labelled as part of "Live" for which there is no developer API.

Use noConflict() with jQuery in SharePoint

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:00:00 EDT

I’ve seen quite a few posts on jQuery and SharePoint lately. I haven’t seen too many people point this out (maybe I didn’t search well enough :) ), so I thought I would take a quick minute to remind you to use jQuery’s noConflict() method in SharePoint. It appears somewhere in all of the magic JavaScript that powers SharePoint it too also makes use of the $ shortcut. If you don’t simply having a reference to the jQuery script on a page can cause all number of things to break. I have seen it break my own JavaScript as well as cause certain things not to display such as the Edit Web Part pane. The next time you want to use jQuery with SharePoint, just add the following code and you should be good to go.

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
  jQuery.noConflict();
</script>

Instead of using the $ to use jQuery methods you will have to use jQuery instead. For example: $.get() would become jQuery.get().

Review: ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Unleashed

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:15:00 EDT

Nowadays, many web developers have implemented AJAX in their web applications. This enables them to create dynamic, rich web sites. There are numerous resources available on the web for learning ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX, but it is always nice to refer to a book as and when required. In his latest book, ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Unleashed, [...] No related posts.

Curl Announces General Availability of Curl Development Tools for Eclipse

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:00:00 EDT

Curl announced that it has completed the final phase of its Eclipse development strategy with the general availability release of Curl Development tools for Eclipse (CDE). The CDE is a set of Eclipse plug-ins that provides an environment for developing programs in the Curl language and on the current release of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) Platform, Version 6.0. With the full release of the CDE, programmers can take advantage of the enterprise-class features of the Curl platform within the flexible Eclipse development environment.

Scaling AJAX Applications Using Asynchronous Servlets

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:45:00 EDT

The advent of AJAX as a Web application model is significantly changing the traffic profile seen on the server side. The typical Web pattern usage of a user sitting idle on a Web page filling out fields and hitting the submit button to the next link is now transforming into sophisticated client-side JavaScript and rich user interfaces that constantly communicate with the server whenever an event is posted on a form such as a checkbox click, key press, or tab focus.